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Native American Career and Technical Education Program (NACTEP) provides roughly $14.1 million annually to federally-recognized Indian tribes, tribal organizations, Alaskan Native entities, and eligible Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)- funded schools to provide career and technical education programs for Native Americans and Alaskan Natives.

Outcomes and Products

Native American and Alaska Native students who are better prepared to pursue further education or to enter high-skills, high-wage employment.

High quality career and technical education teachers, principals, administrators, and counselors.

Annual and final performance reports that document grantee's progress in meeting project goals and objectives.

On August 1, 2017, the Department of Education published the following notice in the Federal Register. Final Waiver and Extension of the Project Period for the Native American Career and Technical Education Program (NACTEP), pages 35,768 – 35,700.

In FY 2013, 31 grants were awarded through a competitive application process for a 2-year period. On July 6, 2015, a Federal Register Notice of Final Waiver and Extension of the Project Period was published, which extended the current NACTEP grants for an additional 2-year period through 2017.

The grants will be extended for an additional one-year period through 2018, under the August 1, 2017 NACTEP Notice of Final Waiver and Extension of the Project Period.

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